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by nothis 10y ago
I wanted to reply something snarky about how the web has become exceptionally bloated even compared to other technologies but then I pictured an earliest-era TV broadcaste being shown in a modern TV show in 1080p and it's comparably in
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by nothis 10y ago
So it seems streaming sites like Twitch are really the only major ones left sticking with Flash. I assume there is a reason? Despite Mozilla's claims, are they really offering a proper alternative?
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by nothis 10y ago
Well, isn't Windows quite a mess as well?
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by nothis 10y ago
I figured that. I guess the days where an indie-ish indie developer would ever touch the bottom-level graphics API are over. Somehow that just seems a little sad.
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by nothis 10y ago
Maybe that's old-fashioned but I'm just not a big fan of the "just use Unity" argument. Game engines tend to be horribly bloated, it's in their nature. Plus you're now dependent on a costly, proprietary black-b
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by nothis 10y ago
Jesus christ. I understand that Vulkan is very, very niche but as someone who doesn't know much more than the basics of maybe setting up an OpenGL window to draw anything, the "drawing a triangle part" just seems insane! I kn
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by nothis 10y ago
It almost seems like something happened and it was some kind of text about administrative work that accidentally slipped in.
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by nothis 10y ago
I heard that "runner's high" only sets in when you train hard and for a long time. To make that clear, you're saying it's actually a sign of you having gone too far?
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by nothis 10y ago
Since I never quite figured this out: Why are there no real other browsers on iOS? Is it policy or simply not feasible?
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by nothis 10y ago
I like Apple's mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop/mobile hybrid, I'm scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop/laptop ecosystem the way they do wi
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by nothis 10y ago
I know we're on hacker news but I don't quite get how you put "technology" in these lists. The trend in Europe is very, very obviously about the immigration crisis. Which, if not racist, is at least a nationalist issue
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by nothis 10y ago
The language he uses in the TEDx talk feels like he has delusions of grandeur ("welcome to heaven", "your lives will never be the same"). Makes me worried there isn't as much substance behind this as he tries to mak
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by nothis 10y ago
How is an anti-aliased line easier to read for a computer? It should be fairly easy to find lines and use those to get vanishing points for orientation. Distance of enemies should be more or less a mapping of screen height, since you'r
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by nothis 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 Coincidence? I think not!
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by nothis 11y ago
IMO the analogy is correct for Go players as that's mostly a "sport". There's real cases of similar technology putting people out of jobs, for example I recently read that more and more finance firms more or less complet
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by nothis 11y ago
Well, we're on hackernews, we like the tech stuff. For most of the world, this news is where people learn about Go and the human player's "humiliation" (whether or not the Go community sees it that way) is the story. I&#
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by nothis 11y ago
I like that analogy a lot! It's not like "playing Go really well" ever solved any real-world problem, it has always been a competition among humans. What should change, there?
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by nothis 11y ago
I like the idea that ad-driven business are not sustainable. Ads are manipulative almost by definition and the world would probably be better without them (even though it's hard to make an argument for disallowing people to present the
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by nothis 11y ago
Those deploying antennas sound absolutely terrifying and deadly.
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by nothis 11y ago
So in that Venn diagram, what about poor minorities? Why should they have less of a voice than rich minorities?
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by nothis 11y ago
I just wonder if there's rationality behind not changing this (by either switching to a different language, fixing it or, hardcore mode, create a new one). I know from a very, very different field that you often have to deal with decad
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by nothis 11y ago
Why isn't it a subset of OpenGL, then? Maybe that's what's confusing? It sounds like the most typical usage would be to implement things in OpenGL and then do a few hardcore optimization tasks in Vulkan. Why not add that acce
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by nothis 11y ago
AFAIK it's mostly a performance booster in some niche cases where low level GPU access is the bottleneck. I've seen VR mentioned, for example. The end user will see better framerates, I suppose.
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by nothis 11y ago
That's a big "NOT", though, for such subtle semantics and IMO more confusing than helpful. It's by the same people, for the same thing. It's set to replace OpenGL in the long term, no? I'd say that the only rea
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by nothis 11y ago
There's one in a thousand chances and there's 1-2^-80 chances. Wouldn't that be some "electrons in the universe" level coincidence? Believing in that borders on religion.
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by nothis 11y ago
Looks like this jsfiddle just doesn't do per-pixel z-sorting (which I wouldn't have expected from browser 3D effects) but in my brain that shouldn't be an issue with cubes (no polygons overlapping).
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by nothis 11y ago
It's a shame how Nvidia is able to close up the market, there has, traditionally, been great competition between AMD and Nvidia in that space.
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by nothis 11y ago
That old topic. Ironically, I find people who work with math ( chosen to work with math, that is) to probably be quite unqualified to truly understand the problem. He opens by saying that learning avoiding mistakes before any bigger concep
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by nothis 11y ago
I guess you're paying for a good screen, working stylus, thought out product design, a smart touch UI/OS and being able to continue to use existing Apple purchases (media, Apps). None of these things are easy to "review"
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by nothis 11y ago
>Updated January 18, 20161:39 PM ET >Published February 29, 201210:10 AM ET I remember reading the article in 2012. I wonder what the update was? I only skimmed, is it mentioned anywhere?

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